71 



i?6/.— "The Nipa Palm, Nipa Jruticam;' Gibbs, in The 

 Phihppme Journ.. of Science, vi, April 1911, "The Alcohol 



Industry of the Philippine Islands," pp. 110-143, Pis. i.-viii. 



'' The Nipa Palm as a Commercial Source of Sugar : A Considera- 

 tion of the Principal Difficulties encountered in Collecting and 

 Preserving Nipa-Palm Sap," Pratt, Thurlow, AVilhams & Gibbs, 

 in The Philippine Journ. Science, viii. (Sect. A. Chem. & Geol.) 



Dec. 1913, pp. 377-398.- "The Nipa Palm," Matthews, in 



The British North Borneo Herald, Sept. 1st, 1915. "Nipa," 



Blatter, in The Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xxiv. 1916. 

 " The Palms of British India and Ceylon," pp. 686-688. 



Phoenix, Linn, 

 Phoenix dactylifera, Linn,\ Fl. Trop. Afr. VIII. p. 102. 



Ilh — Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. PL i. t. 9, f. 2; Lam. Encycl. 

 t. 893; Jacquin, Collect, v, t. 15, f. 3; Duhamel, Traite des 

 Arbres, iv. tt. 1 bis, 2 bis, 3 bis ; Delile, Egypte, t. 62 ; Plenck, 

 Ic. t. 726; Diet. So. Nat. tt. 25, 26; Mem. Mus. Paris, iii. 1817, 

 t. 15 (Anatomie fruct.); Desc. Ant. iv. t. 274; Nees von 

 Esenbeck, Plant. Medic. Dusseld. i. t. 37; Martius, Palm. iii. 

 t. 120; Gallesio, Pomona, Italv vi. tt. 1-4; Gaudichaud, Voyage, 

 Bonite, t. 124; Burnett, PL Util. ii. t. 51a; Zippel, Ausl. Handels 

 Nahrpfl. t. 45; Beccari, Malesia, iii. t. 43, f, 1; Ehrenberg, 

 Symbol, t. 10; Foureau, Mission Sahara, p. 502 (habit); Karst. 

 & Schenck, Veg. bild. v. tt. 34-35; Le Jardin, 1909, p. 313; 

 Bev. Hort. 1910, p. 569, f. 240; Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. xx. 

 1911, t. 8; U.S. Dept. Agric. Bur. PI. Ind. Inv. Seeds & PL 

 No, 32, 1914, t. 3 (fruit); No, 34, 1915, t. 3 (habit); Goldman 

 Exp. Lower Cahfornia, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. xvi. part xiv. 

 1916, t. 107, f, B (habit at San Angel); Agric. Journ. Egypt, v. 

 1915, t. 11. 



Vernac names, — Dabino (Hausa, Dalziel, Parsons); Date 

 Palm. 



Cultivated in N. Africa. 



Me 



Palestine, Persia, Arabia, India, California, Arizona, etc. in 

 the S.U, States; West Indies — Jamaica, Dominica; Trinidad; 

 AustraHa, Canary Islands and many hot dry countries^ 



^' Dates " are well known as a fruit imported in a dried state 

 into the United Kingdom from Turkey in Asia, France, British 

 India, Persia, Egypt, Gibraltar, etc. 



Date -Calve is made and sold by the Arabs to the Monks at 

 Mt. Sinai, Palestine, and resold to visitors (Mus, Kew). 



In desert regions like that of the Sahara in Northern Africa, 

 this fruit is of first importance to the inhabitants and in Mesopo- 

 tamia as well as being of importance to the people dates are 



p. 77), 



feeding cows (Kew Bull. 1908, p. 286; 1919, 



Baskets, ropes, and cordage are made from the leaves in 

 Egypt and India; the blanched leaves come in large quantities 

 from the South of France — where they are growTi largely on 



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